Crews respond to fire on unoccupied sailboat

Emergency responders were called to Old County Road in Severna Park on Wednesday for a report of a sailboat fully involved in flames, according to a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.

No one was on board the 20-foot sailboat, which was tied to a residential pier off the 200 block of Old County Road, Lt. Erik Kornmeyer said.

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Units were called for the fire around 3:30 p.m. It was put out within minutes of the Annapolis Fire Department's Boat 36 arriving, Kornmeyer said.